Bad husbands will make bad wives.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Humor is wit and love.

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.